On Tuesday, Donald Trump took the stage in Jupiter, Florida, to give a victory speech after winning both the Michigan and Mississippi primaries, according to the New York Times. Trump — the man who stood behind his comments that "Islam hates us" and who wants to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico — is also no fan of reporters, and, allegedly, neither is his security team. On Tuesday, Breitbart News reporter Michelle Fields said Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, yanked her arm and left bruises when she tried to ask Trump a question about affirmative action, according to the Times. On Friday, Trump said the reporter made up the alleged assault, and it's a disgusting, dangerous example of not believing women or victims of violence. The Guardian confirmed Friday that Fields filed a criminal complaint against Lewandowski.

As one of dozens of individuals present as Mr. Trump exited the press conference, I did not witness any encounter. In addition to our staff, which had no knowledge of said situation, not a single camera or reporter of more than 100 in attendance capture the alleged incident.

Trump has previously referred to reporters as "scum" and "horrible," but — don't worry — in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in December, he said he would never go so far as to kill them, according to CNN:

I hate some of these people, I hate 'em. I would never kill them. I would never do that.

For a man to be successful he needs support at home, just like my father had from my mother, not someone who is always griping and bitching. When a man has to endure a woman who is not supportive and complains constantly about his not being home enough or not being attentive enough, he will not be very successful unless he is able to cut the cord.

And, if you Google "Donald Trump comments about women," there's no shortage of absolutely shocking and horrifying real things he's actually said. Here's just few of my least favorites:

26,000 unreported sexual assults in the military-only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?

I wasn’t involved in it but the Secret Service that was surrounding everybody, they said nothing happened. Everybody said nothing happened. Perhaps she made the story up. I think that’s what happened.

Not only is it disturbing that — with audio that appears to support that Fields was roughly grabbed by Lewandowski — Trump's campaign will not investigate the incident, it's even more disgusting that he actually said she made the incident up entirely.

It's not at all surprising, though, given his comments about both women and reporters. His dismissal of her not only proves that he doesn't take women seriously, but it also perpetuates a dangerous cultural problem where people don't believe women's accounts of their own experiences. How many times, when discussing a widely publicized sexual assault, have women heard, "Are you sure she didn't make it up? Do you think that's actually how it happened?"

To a certain degree, these kinds of questions — about what exactly happened — are things that police officers and lawyers ask in a courtroom when they're trying to determine guilt. But Trump didn't ask an officer to investigate. Rather, there was no investigation at all, and yet he just decided that Fields "made the story up," like a child with an overactive imagination.

His rejection of her story is a direct affront to people who have experienced violence and who have been told that they're exaggerating. It's an example of Trump's power and his dismissal of the experiences of those who have less power than he does. Trump's use of the same language that victim blamers have often used against women shows precisely what he thinks of women, what he thinks of those who question him, and — most importantly — that his word is the last word. His dictatorial approach represses the personal experiences of women and the free speech of anyone who doesn't agree with him, and it shows just how disconnected he is with the country's crucial social issues — a country that, again, he thinks he could actually run successfully.